CONDENSED CORRES PONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 76, 2 April 1897, Page 4

CONDENSED CORRES PONDENCE.

A Good Word tor Domestic Servants.— •' Mother," commencing upon fcho opinions expressed aba meeting in Napier with reference to domestic servants, gives her oxperienco iTith girls,, which has been throughout of a'very favourable and satisfactory character. Sho nays ;"I do nob think all the fault is with the girl*. I know of many girls who never receive any sympathy, bub are troabod as if they had no fooling. If "8 would expecb poodservnr.ta we must ba good mistroßse?. Bufc often, Mr Editor, we find that tho work is all expected to be done, visitors aro to bo waited on, litble ones to bo takon care of, and all by one pair of very human hands, who will firat in return bluek looks for every little mistake, and aaucy answers from the children. If we would be well 89rved lob us see bo it that we give that which our helps vsluo, sympathy and kindness, and a loving, living intereet in their oftentimes troubled lives, I do think every girl is entitled to some parb of Sunday, an afternoon and erenincr during the wock. And above all, that) children of tho family should never bo allowed to'treab a eervanb otherwise than kindly. I do think tho lax discipline of our colonial parents is often tho reason that complaints are made of bad servants." Vink growing. —W. R. Keesell is pleased to observe thai; increased attention is being givon to vine-growing. Ho ia confident that the climate of Auckland is well ndapbed for this industry. Ho fay? : " Laab season at Hasting?, Hawko's Bay, I saw a crop of grapes about an acre in oxtenb superior in quantity if not; qualify to any I evor saw in South Austraiia.and I have seen hundreds of aeroa. The vinos wero trained on trellis and were literally black, for they wore of that well known sorb the Black Hamburg. Now if grapes were not grown hero for wine they surely could bo grown more extensively for defteorb, and pay the vignoron handsomely at 6d par pound, as t have purchaaed them in Hastings ab that

price." Unemployed ox the Golditki.ds. — Mine-manager writing from Coromandel warns men against flocking bo the gold' fields in search of work. Ho t=ays : " Tho labour market is already overstocked. Many mines are knocking ofF awn altogether and others reducing tho number of their hands. Ah ■ one sitting of the Warden's Courb no less than 40 claim* applied for permission to work with less men. Mosbipf the claims employed from cix to twenty men each, and now that they have received permission to work with less men I am positive there will be over 70 good minors out of work. Most of the claims have got profcecbion to work four months and to employ four men. Again, no loss than twenty claims applied and grot granted absolute protection for four months, or in plainer talk, they are entitled to abandon that claim for four months, and employ no owe. I feel suro frhar that protection has put no leas than 30 men out of work. Ib ie without doubb that no less than 100 men are oub of work."

Labrikinism at Arch H:ll.—A correspondent sends a complaint on this subject). He saya the residents in' Lower Aroh Hill are greably annoyed by stones being thrown on the roofs of their houses and similar practicea.

A Practical JbKE.—A correspondent sends us an account of a practical joke he and a friend playo'd ab Taknpuna. They had been fern-gathering, and his friend being in possession oi a large bread knife, our correspondent assumes! the rolo of custodian* to a dangerous lunatic. The dismay, and subsequent amusement, caused to a group ab the local hotel may have been amusing to those who wore proaonb, bub tho incidenb i 3 hardly worth the space which our correspondent's account of it would occupy

Parental Training. — "A Mother' believes thafe too much is expected from tho State ia New Zealand, and there ia too little individual and especially parental responsibility, hence the growth of larrikinisrn. She says :—" Some children are literally driven to tho streets. They go in mob?, gangs, or pushes. For the mosb parb this class of boy is an arrant coward. Ten chances to one thab his father hasi knocked all the better qualities out of him in his mistaken mode ot correction. Thorofore, those boys aro harralees enough when left alone, bub liko the wolves they hunb in pacha in search'of adventure. Now, how aro wa to educate tho parents, and principally tho mothers. If the children are to be improved they must come of an improved parentage. What the Governtnonb mighb do with advantage is encourage local industries, whore those youths would find something to do which would tend to elevate their characters, instead of increasing tho police force. And while on bhi3 subjecb 1 would like to chaw the attention of tho Inspector of Police to the practice of young follows of the male animal typo who congregate on the hills jtißb ovsr the beach at Parnell usinjj language anything but edifying to females wtio happen to be bathing or passing through bo their boat?."